Improved biscuit-fan



JOHN C, MILLIGAN, OF

entre een,

BROOKLYN, newYo1.2.f1. 4

l Letters Patent No. 96,605, dated November 9, 1869.

The Schedule referred. to in these Letters Patent andmaking part of the name.

, To all whom if. may concern:

Be itvknown that' I, Joux C.I MILLIGAN, of Brook: lyn, Ain 'the county of Kings, and State of New York,

have invented n newnml useful'Improvement in Biscuit-Pans; end I do hereby dechire tbn-t the foilow- .ing is a. i'ull,"clenr, and eignet-description thereof,`

which' will enable others skilled in the. nrt to make andpuse'the"saine,icfeienee'beingimd to 4the nacompunying drawings, forming pnrt of this specih'cntion.

This invention relates to im improved mode of'nnitizig smullbiseuit-puns together in clusters; nud consists in providing the said puns withholizontellnnges around the tops, and joining them together in rows by lapping the tlnnges und riveting them, 'joining two or more rows together, either in right lines in both di'- rections, or in zigzag lines, ns muy he preferred.

y The invention also consists in binding the whole together by {vires or other bnrs, extending around ornlong t-he sides ot' the clusters :it the nter edges of the outer puns, 'and turning the 'edges 'of theiinnges ove|" them. l

Figure 1 represents n plan view of An. cluster of pans, constructed according to my4 improvement, und

Figure 2 representen transverse section on the line Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. l

A represent-sihepnns made of sheet-metal iu dies by striking up, generally of round form, and according l-o my improvement, 'with wide Ranges, B', which e ineke' usc of ibrconnectingthe pans together in clusters by lapping the seid angesnns shown at C, and rivet- Iing them together', as mamy as may be reqnired,in any preferredo rder of errnngemenueither n right; lines neet the outer edges ot' the outer rows of pons to' vstreiigthening-wiresor other strips or bnrs oi'. metal,

D, by bending the snid flanges overtlwm, as represented nt E, and I also provide suitable handles, F, l for the clusters.' v i The wires or other strips at the edges muy be. dispensedwvith if prefened in somecnses, when the metzii of the flanges is. sufficiently thick und strong, and I out t-he said wires or bers.

Hoving thus described my invention, I cluinrns '.neiv, and desire to secure, by Letters Patent- Biscuit-pons united in clusters, by lapping and rivet/- ing-wires or bars at the edges, or not, substuntinllyas specified.

me, this 27th dey of September, 1869. y

` MlLLIG-AN.

J NO. l(l.

Witnesses:lv

GEo. W. MABFLE,

ALEX. F. ROBERTS,

in-both directions, or in any other lines. I alsoconcontemplate mnking these clusters either with or withing the tlnnges, and either provided with the stufen- The above specihcationof. my invention signed by- 

